By Carol Morello and Ed O’Keefe Two Republican lawmakers are raising questions about the U.S. Census Bureau’s decision to lease space in an office building owned by a Falls Church mosque. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Rep. Darrell Issa of California each sent letters this week to the General Services Administration asking for detailsRead… Read more »
Was checking out Facebook today when I noticed an ad on the side for the Facebook page for USAID careers. Have others seen gov’t agencies use FB ads? Have govies tried using the ads? Effectiveness? Personally I think it’s a good idea especially around recruiting the best and brightest in government. Makes me wonder howRead… Read more »
Today, Google launched their new Google Fonts Directory. This directory provides websites with a list of free fonts that are hosted “in the cloud” and downloaded to the browser as the page loads. These aren’t just ordinary fonts like Verdana, but more of what you would call custom fonts. Right now the list is small,Read… Read more »
Thanks to everyone who visited the Shoplet Booth (#450) at the GSA Expo! Our Sales team had a great time in sunny Orlando, Florida and hopefully you did too. To all those who missed it, we missed seeing you! Come next year okay? See more pictures on our blog!
(WASHINGTON) – The House Armed Services Committee rejected, 37-23, an amendment to the FY11 National Defense Authorization Act that would have killed the Department of Defense’s (DoD) promising insourcing initiative. The amendment would have prevented any insourcing—even if the functions are inherently governmental and never should have been contracted out in the first place orRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” I know we’re all busy. We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. ToRead… Read more »
The first Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force Meeting will be held 26 May 2010 at the offices of Google in Washington, DC, USA. The co-convenors of the meeting are Vinton G. Cerf of Google and James Stogdill of Accenture. Click here for the conference program. The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #lawgov. Click hereRead… Read more »
Originally posted to http://www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/05/americas-top-military-officer-uses.html. I have grown to appreciate the value of interdisciplinary thinking. Put another way, I have found that my experiences in business, the Coast Guard, education, non-profits, information technology, even retail have together prepared me to better tackle a variety of challenges across industries, organizations, venues. Of course, I doRead… Read more »
Do you ever feel like your current role at work places you in charge of 10 billion different things? Well, David S. Ferriero does. As the 10th Archivist of the United States, David leads the National Archives and and Records Administration in preserving our nation’s most valuable documents. This week I asked him about hisRead… Read more »
Craig Newmark, the creator and founder of Craigslist.org and recent Federal 100 winner of 2010, will address the Virtual FOSE audience on Wednesday, July 21st at 2:00PM EST. From the convenience of your computer, watch Craig’s LIVE presentation titled “Trust is the New Black Distributed Networks of Trust.” PLUS, get your questions personally answered byRead… Read more »